Jennifer Marohasy

Easter Island has been described by Jared Diamond as the “clearest example of a society that destroyed itself by overexploiting its own resources”.
Prof Diamond has told and retold the story and drawn a parallel between the ecological disaster he says befell Easter Island and our likely fate because we are cutting down too many trees [...]

Jen,
I’ve noticed your recent thread on the long-term hydrological drought affecting eastern Australia. I’ve whipped off a few charts for you which put this into an historical context based on rainfall data going back to 1900 (some limited earlier data is available).
In terms of eastern Australia, the current meteorological drought started in early 2002 with [...]

I would like to think that debates at this weblog were won and lost on the quality of the information provided and the logic of the arguments presented, but so often information is judged on the perceived standing of the commentator based on the prejudices of the reader.
Some months ago I started a ‘people category’ [...]